LONDON: The president of Dubai's Emirates airline slammed the aviation industry's inability to quickly locate aircraft black boxes following crashes, and said more needed to be done to ensure air passenger safety in general.
"As far as aircraft tracking is concerned, it's a disgrace," Emirates president Tim Clark told the IATA annual meeting on Thursday.
The black box recorders from the flight from EgyptAir MS804 are still being sought two weeks after it crashed into the Mediterranean killing all 66 people on board, the latest example of difficulties in locating devices vital in crash investigations.
Clark said that any suggestion that entities in global aviation were cautious on tracking technology due to their high cost was "anathema to my thinking".
He added that manufacturers of recording devices should make them more robust.
"They must have much more power to develop beacons and locating systems in very, very remote areas," he said.
He also called for aviation security to be improved across the board. "In my view we are not doing enough," he said.
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